It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...” — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out. — Arthur Miller Copy Share
“When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and… — Arthur Miller Copy Share
